Portable fence.



No. 704,277. Patented July 8, I902. J. STEINER.

PORTABLE FENCE.

(Application filed Nov. 25, 1901.,

(No Model.

0.. WASHANGTON n c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAKOB STEINER, OF TOLEDO, OHIO.

PORTABLE FENCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iatent No. 704,277, dated July 8, 1902.

Application filed November 25,1901. Serial No. 88,554. (No model.)

To all whom, it ntay concern:

Be it known that I, J AKOB STEINER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Toledo, in the county of Lucas and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Portable Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in a portable fence, and has for its object to provide a light, strong, and durable fence of the kind that may be readily and economically manufactured and transported from place to place and that may be rapidly set up or taken down for removal. I accomplish these objects by constructing the panels and posts for a fence as hereinafter described, and illustrated in the drawings, in which Figure 1 is an isometric View of a section of a fence constructed and set up in accordance with my invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged cross-section through line X X of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is an enlarged View in elevation of a post and the ends of adjacent panels.

In the drawings, 1 is a panel constructed in accordance with my invention, in which 2 is a central longitudinal stringer preferably of double the width of its thickness, and 3 3 are end pieces of the panel of equal thickness with the stringer and one-half its width and are of a length to make a panel of the required height. The end pieces 3 are central of their length secured by spikes to the ends of the stringer 2 and at right angles thereto, with the sides of the ends flush with the sides of the stringer, and are braced in that position by the trusses 4:, suitably angled at their ends and spiked to the inner edges of the end pieces near their ends and to the edges of the central stringer at opposite points near its center to form two equal right-angle triangles at each end of the stringer, with the stringer as a common base. To complete the panel,tautlydrawn wires 5 are secured to the end pieces 3 of the framework thus formed at suitable intervals throughout their length parallel with the stringer 2. To support the panels thus formed in vertical alinement, I provide the posts 6, having the same width and thickness as the stringer 2 and of about equal length with the end pieces 3 and having their lower ends pointed for driving into the ground. Near the top and also central of their lengths posts 6 are provided with incuts 7 transverse the edges of the post.

8 designates cleats, which are preferably one-half the thickness and width and in length three times the width of the posts. Cleats 8 are provided with a pair of lateral bolt-holes 9 at equal distances from the ends of the cleats and at a distance between centers equal to the width of a post, to the sides of which they are clamped in pairs by nuts run on the threaded bolts 10, inserted through coincident holes 9 and the incuts 7.

Thus constructed the panels and posts may be readily transported to any desired point and set up as a fence in the following manner: A post 6, with the cleats attached as aforesaid, is first driven into the ground edged in the line upon which the fence is to be erected. The end of a panel is then inserted between. the pairs of cleats against the edge of the post with the ends 3 of the panel resting on the ground. Another post is then set against the opposite end of the panel with the 7 5 cleats 8 on each side of the end piece 3, in which position the post is driven into the ground to the same depth as the first post, preferably bearing against the panel, and in this manner the panels and posts are added until the fence is completed.

What I claim to be new is- In a portable fence, the combination of portable panels with wooden posts having their lower end portions pointed for driving into the ground and their top and middle portions each provided with pairs of cleats clamped thereto by bolts engaging incuts in the edges of the posts,the cleats so clamped being adapted to receive and support the ends of panels 0 abutting the posts and to prevent splitting of the posts when driven into the ground.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of November, A. D.'1901.

JAKOB STEINER.

Witnesses:

IRVING E. MAooMBER, GEO. A. WHITNEY, Jr. 

